Kate Allen
@kateallen.ft.com
Weekend News Editor, the Financial Times @financialtimes.com. I did write the headline.
Tonight’s @financialtimes.com front pages: Moroccan families wait for missing loved ones on border with Ceuta; US earnings season is going swimmingly; UK companies are being wooed by foreign investors with ‘bear hug’ tactics; and what’s your tipple, an Aperol or a Hugo? #tomorrowspaperstoday #news
Breaking news: AstraZeneca holds talks with Bristol Myers Squibb on pharma megadeal www.ft.com/content/e902...
AstraZeneca holds talks with Bristol Myers Squibb on pharma megadeal
Tie-up would create one of the world’s biggest drugmakers
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Tonight’s @financialtimes.com front pages: European outrage over 60,000 migrants arriving in Ceuta; Infantino under growing pressure at FIFA; and low water levels on the Danube reveal a WWII German warship. #tomorrowspaperstoday #news
Tonight’s @financialtimes.com front pages: European outrage over 60,000 migrants arriving in Ceuta; Infantino under growing pressure at FIFA; and low water levels on the Danube reveal a WWII German warship. #tomorrowspaperstoday #news
Tonight’s @financialtimes.com front pages: Warsh faces investor backlash; BoE holds rates; Citadel snaps up Situational Awareness assets; and the European revolt against Fifa. #tomorrowspaperstoday #news (I’m trying to post our front pages more frequently due to overwhelming demand*) *1 person
Our @financialtimes.com front pages: Fed holds rates, Ferrari is selling its widely criticised EV thanks to Chinese buyers, FTSE at record high, drought hits half of England, Fauci refuses to answer questions #tomorrowspaperstoday #news (Am trying to post our fronts more often due to popular demand)
Really sad news. He was really well thought of by colleagues at the FT and was incredibly helpful to many of us over the years. My thoughts are with his family. bondvigilantes.com/blog/2026/07...
Jim Leaviss
We are very sorry to share the news that Jim Leaviss passed away on 23 July 2026, aged 55.
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Am late to promoting this but here’s a piece on the joy to be found in the bountiful array of online education that is now available. Featuring a cameo appearance from me in the comments section, promoting my favourite: the Yale MOOC (do we even call them that anymore?!) www.ft.com/content/f946...
The best way to spend the summer? Studying St Augustine
Or medieval magic, Mesopotamian demons or K-pop — the online courses opening up a whole world of art, history, philosophy and, yes, teen idols
ft.com
Am late to promoting this but here’s a piece on the joy to be found in the bountiful array of online education that is now available. Featuring a cameo appearance from me in the comments section, promoting my favourite: the Yale MOOC (do we even call them that anymore?!) www.ft.com/content/f946...
The best way to spend the summer? Studying St Augustine
Or medieval magic, Mesopotamian demons or K-pop — the online courses opening up a whole world of art, history, philosophy and, yes, teen idols
ft.com
By popular request (1 person), I’ll try and post our @financialtimes.com print fronts more often. Tonight: a leap into the market for Chinese tech; European wildfires rage; Infantino brushes aside criticism; and Andy Burnham wants to link schools with employers. #tomorrowspaperstoday #news
Tonight’s @financialtimes.com front page: defence companies pile into tech startups as the US and Iran pause tit-for-tat strikes; Spain and France evacuate hundreds of thousands as wildfires rage; and India’s Gen Z protesters celebrate Modi’s humiliating climbdown #tomorrowspaperstoday #news
Meanwhile, across the UK higher education sector, classics departments, history departments, literature departments etc are being gutted or destroyed.
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz@igallupd.bsky.social · 2w ago“A Penn professor thought she’d sell 1000 copies of her ‘Odyssey’ translation. She sold a million this year alone, thanks to Christopher Nolan.” “West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.”
While you’re all out enjoying / fleeing from the sun, it’s been a busy news day. (Thread) … #news #tomorrowspaperstoday To start with, Narendra Modi has blinked in his standoff with India’s ‘cockroach’ generation www.ft.com/content/5f26...
India’s ‘cockroach’ movement halts protests after minister quits
Dharmendra Pradhan’s departure was a key demand of the burgeoning student movement
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A piece asking something I’ve long wondered: why are readers, predominantly women, so obsessed with books about violence against women? (Same with true crime podcasts). Before you come at me, chaps, the author does acknowledge that most of the authors are women too. www.ft.com/content/3b00...
The rise of cosy femicide in novels should alarm us all
The ubiquity of violence against women in popular fiction has largely gone unnoticed
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Private Eye tells me that How Green Was My Valley is one of Andy Burnham’s favourite books. Oh dear. I write a PhD on 1930s Welsh mining novels, including a whole chapter on Llewellyn’s work. I even read the terrible sequels. It really, really isn’t a story of working-class solidarity etc.
If the aim of political violence is to shut people up, then it's working. Two-fifths of political candidates say they now avoid certain issues and hesitate before decision making due to harassment and intimidation www.economist.com/britain/2026...
Violence is reshaping British political life
The shocking murder of Ann Widdecombe will only reinforce the trend
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Tonight’s front pages #tomorrowspaperstoday @financialtimes.com Tensions flare over Hormuz, Lindsey Graham dies, China cracks down on optimistic bond ratings and Andy Burnham prepares for a big Budget moment …
When YO does it, she's 'not a proper artist'. When Cattelan does it, it's an art-world sensation.
Trump: "Would you go to Moscow?" Zelensky: "It's difficult. There are a lot of Ukrainian drones there. It would be dangerous."
George Lansbury quit his seat in 1912 to trigger a by-election on the issue of women’s suffrage. He lost to a Tory. Just saying.
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The FCA says that millions of people in the U.K. are using #AI to help them make personal financial decisions, regulators need more powers to deal with it, and the government should consider including LLMs in the watchdog’s existing regime. www.ft.com/content/7f50...
Regulators in ‘arms race’ to keep up with AI use in financial services, UK official warns
Warning by FCA executive director comes as millions of people use technology to make personal finance decisions
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The @financialtimes.com front pages tonight. Trump’s war on Iran hasn’t endeared him to voters; the ayatollah’s funeral; and cider wars in Europe. In the UK, the FCA warns that people are seeking personal financial advice from AI, and easyJet is probably going American. #tomorrowsfrontpagestoday
The FCA says that millions of people in the U.K. are using #AI to help them make personal financial decisions, regulators need more powers to deal with it, and the government should consider including LLMs in the watchdog’s existing regime. www.ft.com/content/7f50...
Regulators in ‘arms race’ to keep up with AI use in financial services, UK official warns
Warning by FCA executive director comes as millions of people use technology to make personal finance decisions
ft.com
Could someone please explain to the @nytimes.com that if we stopped to celebrate every country that has broken free from our tyrannical grasp, we’d never get any work done. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/w...
In Britain, July 4 Is Mostly Just a Saturday
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Could someone please explain to the @nytimes.com that if we stopped to celebrate every country that has broken free from our tyrannical grasp, we’d never get any work done. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/w...
In Britain, July 4 Is Mostly Just a Saturday
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As we’re all discussing the (excellent) investigative work of @londoncentric.media today, it’s time to wheel out my maxim once again:
Kate Allen@kateallen.ft.com · 7mo agoI’m becoming increasingly convinced that everything can be explained by either accounting policy or regulatory failure.
